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Leif Eriksson
c. 970-c. 1020
Icelandic Explorer
Half a millennium before Christopher Columbus&#x0027;s ships landed in the New World, Leif Eriksson and his crew of Vikings became the first Europeans t...
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Leif Eriksson
Born late 970s, Iceland Died 1020, Greenland
The most reliable evidence of Leif Eriksson&rsquo;s exploration of North America remains the sagas written almost 200 years after the event...
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The Norse mariner and adventurer Leif Ericson (971-ca. 1015) was the first Norseman to seek out the coast of North America. He introduced Christianity into Greenland.Leif Ericson was born in Iceland, ...
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